Jobs at Chainguard

Build and operate secure, customer-facing repositories, package registries, APIs, and backend services in Go. Develop features from design through testing, rollout, monitoring, and iteration while improving scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and security. Participate in technical design, code reviews, production troubleshooting, and cross-functional collaboration to support artifact serving across libraries, containers, images, APKs, and other formats.

Lead the architecture, development, scaling, and production operation of Chainguard’s malware scanning platform. Build detection-quality measurement systems, high-throughput scanning pipelines, verdict APIs, customer investigation and policy services, and reliable production infrastructure. Partner with Product Security to productionize threat detections, ensure performance and correctness, manage incidents, and improve observability. Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across Product, Security, Design, and GTM.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, and integrations, along with AI- and LLM-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Create quality tooling, evaluation loops, and security gates while contributing to system architecture and roadmap planning. Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across North America, Europe, and India.

Lead Chainguard's vulnerability pipeline: measure, disclose, and report thousands of novel vulnerabilities; run CNA/CVE processes; coordinate embargoes; work with industry bodies, customers, and AI model vendors to shape disclosure standards.